I'm planning to a buy a new 13" Macbook Pro, the one that was just released this week with the Thunderbolt port. The question is, has anyone given it a shot with Ubuntu (10.10 or 11.04 alpha)? I'd be especially interested whether temperature sensors/fan control, external displays via the displayport and 3D acceleration (for Compiz or some simple 3D games) via the integrated HD3000 GPU work without flaws.

Most of it appears to work, but "with remarks". That said, given the hardware changes in the new MacBook Pros, I'd expect some of this information will change.

Thunderbolt itself is definitely not supported yet, although I shouldn't anticipate any major issues using an external DisplayPort screen over Thunderbolt as long as you use the latest proprietary driver (which you might need to download.)

For the ATI Radeon HD3000, you may need to download the latest proprietary ATI Catalyst driver manually.

I haven't been able to find any reports of anyone trying Ubuntu on the new MBPs, though. They are, however, very good machines, so look on the bright side--you'll be the first to know how well they run Ubuntu! :-)

Yep it's an Intel HD3000 integrated GPU. Some article on phoronix.com suggests 3D is working, but I also use my external display a lot, so if that doesn't work that's a major showstopper. The only other thing I'm worried about is whether fan control and CPU dynamic clock adjustment work.
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ldxFeb 28 '11 at 9:05